Here's an MSNBC journalist saying she was explicitly told which candidates in the Democratic primary could and could not come on her show last year: https://twi

Here's an MSNBC journalist saying she was explicitly told which candidates in the Democratic primary could and could not come on her show last year: https://twitter.com/arianapekary/status/1330571415549046787 https://twitter.com/arianapekary/status/1330571415549046787 The thing is, journalists can and do discuss the ways their coverage is shaped from above all the time -- whether through explicit directives like this one or more soft forms of influence like using promotions and firings to select for certain perspectives -- but this never makes any dent in the insistence on such bromides as "if there was a big conspiracy to control the media some journalists would talk about it." They do talk about it, people just aren't interested in hearing it.